During week 3: Inventors' Workshop, the students made lots of different structures and learned about inventions. For the Odyssey of the Mind competition, students had a challenge of making a free-standing structure with spaghetti and a marshmallow! Here is a picture of the winning structure: They visited the Cosmocaixa exhibit Ideas that Change Lives. The exhibit shows inventions
The Blue and Green groups had another visit from some high school students from the US who were visiting Madrid. Apart from the visit, they also did lots of other activities related to the Round and Round theme. Here is what the students had to say about their second week at camp: This week
The students in the Orange group read a play called 'Friends Around the World,' in which one of the characters loves to make toys with clay. They then made their own toy animal figures with clay. Can you find the snail, turtle, pig and penguin?
The week begins and with it the Urban Camp in English, "Summer in the City" with students from five to sixteen years old. The atmosphere of the Institute is radically transformed from 9 in the morning when the earliest risers begin to arrive. All the students and also parents meet in the
July 9, 2014 2.30pm – 3.30pm, Room 101 International Institute C/ Miguel Angel, 8 Word Study Success for ESL Learners Through Vocabulary Building and Sorting Please join us for Ellen Comis' second English language workshop, entitled “Word Study.” This exciting, non-traditional approach is currently gaining ground in the US as an effective method
The EducationUSA Spain Competitive College Club (also known as the CCC) assists top high school students to become competitive applicants to US universities. Club members participate in year round meetings that introduce them to the American educational system and the procedure for applying to US universities. The advising style of these meetings encourages club members
What great groups we had at the open classes for Spontaneous Speaking: English through improvisation this month! Your energy and enthusiasm and willingness to do the activities made it a great success, not to mention a lot of fun. A lot of the participants had seen improv in Spanish before because it has a huge
If you are interested in American literature and also share your hobbies and impressions with other people, we have two suggestions for you. The Literary Circle starts a new cycle starting in September, “Interwar American Literature”. Jacqueline Cruz, its moderator, explains the reason for this choice: “the period between the wars (1918-1939) is one of the
The Institute's library has found persuasive and effective ways to encourage the youngest to read. One of them is the Storytelling sessions in English that have just ended this June with the Fables around the World cycle that has transported the participants once a month and during
This past winter when I arrived at the Institute from my hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, I felt contrasting emotions of great excitement and of others that bordered on homesickness. It was, then, a welcome surprise when Institute Executive Committee member (and fellow Brookline resident) Ben DeWinter showed me a book he